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EPA Recognizes Manufacturing, Retail Leaders in Electronics Recycling Challenge
2014-09-23 06:00:00| Industrial Newsroom - All News for Today
EPA gathered leaders from Best Buy, Dell, LG Electronics, Panasonic, Samsung, Sony, Sprint, and Staples in Washington, D.C. to celebrate their environmental achievements. Furthermore, EPA recognized Best Buy, Dell, Sprint, and Samsung as SMM Electronics Champion award winners for demonstrating significant environmental, social, and economic outcomes that exceed Sustainable Materials Management (SMM) Electronics Challenge requirements. This story is related to the following:Green & CleanSearch for suppliers of:
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UN climate summit is high-profile, but some worlds most important leaders skip it
2014-09-22 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: This week, the United Nations will host a huge and well-publicized one-day summit on climate change. The public is likely to be watching it closely: It comes just days after thousands of people in New York and around the world took to the streets, demanding more political action to help fight global warming. The climate summit's organizer, U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, took part in the New York march, and for Tuesday's event, he is promising to bring together a some of the most powerful...
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All eyes on Obama, world leaders at climate change summit
2014-09-22 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Public Radio: The forecast calls for picture-perfect weather Tuesday in New York City as world leaders gather to discuss the challenge of a changing climate. More than 120 leaders, including President Obama, are expected to attend the one-day climate summit, sponsored by the United Nations. They've been instructed to arrive with "bold ideas" to slow the rise in global temperatures. Tens of thousands of climate activists marched through midtown Manhattan on Sunday. The demonstration, dubbed the People's Climate...
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As global leaders gather for UN climate talks, protesters urge action
2014-09-22 12:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Globe and Mail: Climate change is hanging like a shadow over all international development efforts, a top UN official says, as the world body moves to tackle global warming in a landmark summit this week that will see more than 120 heads of state attend. Helen Clark, head of the United Nations development program, made the comments on Sunday afternoon, while more than 100,000 people marched through New York City to call for tougher action on reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The demonstration coincided with...
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EPA Announces New Actions To Curb Potent Greenhouse Gases/ EPA GreenChill Partners Join Industry Leaders To Drive The Transition To Climate-Friendly Refrigerants
2014-09-22 11:16:05| pollutiononline Home Page
Building on the President’s Climate Action Plan, EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy joined private and public sector leaders at the White House recently to recognize progress and take new steps to curb emissions of hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), potent greenhouse gases used in refrigeration and air conditioning
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